Open Mon- Thurs 11 - 9 Fri & Sat 11 am - 10pm Sunday Closed
Carolina Style Barbecue
Brisket • Pulled Pork • Pulled Turkey • BBQ Ribs
BBQ Chicken • Roast Beef • 7 Cheese Blend Macaroni • Carolina Pudding • Spicy Baked Beans • Crusty Corn Bread • Daily Specials
Old Fashioned Scratch Made Pies
Family Size Meals, Meats, or Sides To Go. Catering too!
Free Eastgate Area Lunch Delivery! $20 Minimum 11-1 M-F
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Woe Is Me 3 Boys & Stella
Corner of Glen-Este Withamsville and Kennedy Landing in the plaza 843-6570
The Eastside has gone from barbecue-less to BBQ king in the past few years. Montgomery Inn threw in their first towel ever after a fire at their Mt. Carmel location. Tony Roma’s cleaned up the mess but met with the same fate shorty after. Damon’s went belly up due to slow sales and horrible management in their Eastgate location (now Fuji). Geno’s BBQ also recently vacated their Day Heights building after several years of effort. It wasn’t looking good for Eastside BBQ to say the least. For a while that is.
Smokey Bone’s opened where once stood the old Chi-Chi’s (oddly enough it means big breasts in Spanish by the way). Smokey Bone’s immediately became the town fave for BBQ ribs and their slow smoked ribs have been selling by the ton ever since.
In 2008 came City Barbecue with their version of slow smoked meats and they were welcomed with great reviews and full dining rooms. Are you seeing a pattern here? The folks who tried to serve us baked ribs were ran out of town and fast, the folks who slow smoked their ribs were embraced and are still here today. Every single rib house that closed sold baked ribs, yet every smoker in the Eastside is still smokin’ even Lefty’s “outdoor” restaurant on Ohio pike is still keepin’ the wood burning. We think that’s just as it should be. The saying down south is “If your BBQ isn’t slow smoked it’s not BBQ... it’s grilling” and that’s a fact. There is a huge difference.
Now, we have a new smoker on the block. Woe Is Me just opened their doors in November. The restaurant is dedicated to offering only the most authentic Southern fare this side of the Mason Dixon line. These aren’t yankee copy cats either folks, they are true blue Carolinians and they came here complete with old family recipes. Recipes for what? How about “Nannie’s” Sweet Potato Pie, Big Mel’s Fruit Cobbler, Kentucky Dried Apple Pie, Jewell’s Holiday Pumpkin Roll, Stella’s Famous Key Lime Pie, Goose Creek Apple Dumplings and that’s just dessert! Down South the pie is just as important as the BBQ, Again, that’s as it should be. Be warned, these pies will make you forget all about any diet.
Any good BBQ feast is always accompanied by a plethora of perfect side dishes, Woe Is Me continues the tradition in true Southern style. Country collard greens, farmhouse green beans, spicy baked beans, baby taters, glazed carrots, buttered peas and fried corn will have the whole family eating their veggies and asking for seconds. Creamy 7 cheese macaroni and that Southern staple, Carolina corn pudding round out the side choices. All are just $1.50!
There is also smoked whole, 1/2 and 1/4 smoked chickens, sausage, meatloaf, pot pies, stew, soups, salads and sandwiches. The pulled pork with the Carolina slaw can’t be beat.
Last, but far from least is the oak & apple wood smoked ribs. These ribs are topped off with Woe Is Me’s homemade Carolina style sauce. We tasted it, then took a full shot right out of the bottle. It is perfect Carolina sauce. Vinegar based with molasses and a pepper kick it’s good on everything (except the pie) literally the best sauce we’ve seen so far. The ribs come in full slabs $18 with 2 sides or 1/2 slabs $11 with 2 sides. All the prices are below norm, sandwiches are at $1.50 - $4, individual slaws and salads are $1.50, or $5 family size. It’s true value.
Woe Is Me is owned and operated by Rhonda & Melvin Royster. Rhonda is from Dunnville Kentucky where she grew up on her grandpa’s farm. Melvin hails from Oxford North Carolina and has always dreamed of having his own restaurant. After success in catering and concession sales the family made the move to Cincy and set up shop on Glen Este Withamsville Road in the Kennedy’s Landing Shopping Plaza (just a stone’s throw from Golden Corral).
We’re certain that GC will still be packed from open to close, but the discerning diners will pull in a couple drives down to Woe Is Me. There you will find amazingly good down home food and people who personify Southern Hospitality. Here it is folks, the first real Carolina BBQ on the Eastside! Ya’ll don’t even know what your in for until you try it.
